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District 200 School Board Endorsement

The following letter to the editor appeared in the Northwest Herald and is re-printed with permission of author Kelly Liebmann, who lives in Wonder Lake:

They Fight for Taxpayers

The choices for overtaxed Woodstock D200 School District residents on April 4th are Barbara Gessert and Susan Handelsman.

Gessert and Handelsman both understand that needless spending and tax breaks for developers directly and indirectly increase our taxes. In recent years Barbara and Susan have fought on behalf of taxpayers by addressing issues including the

2014 Lakewood TIF district

2015 artificial turf boondoggle

2016 impact fee waivers for developers

2016 school clinic

a 2016 administrator bonus without public notice.

Incumbents running for the board sat quietly by or supported these tax increasing issues.

We don’t need more of the same.

We need School Board Trustees that will be stewards of our tax dollars while also making decisions that improve our schools.